iPad textbooks help students' math scores increase by 20%
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Those who watched the educational event Apple held in New York last week will know that they are serious about improving the education of children. Now we have numbers to prove this.
Just days after the educational event, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the results of its “HMC Fuse: Algebra I” pilot program at Ameila Earhart Middle School in Riverside, California. The program was the first in the world to base the entire curriculum on the algebra application developed exclusively for Apple’s iPad.
What really makes this program amazing is the fact that during the pilot program the application actually helped more than 78 percent of students score “Proficient” or “Advanced” on the spring 2011 California Standards Test, compare this to the 59% of the peers who didn’t use this program but traditional textbooks and the numbers become pretty cool.
For those interested in reading all the results can find them here. Other schools and students can download the “HMH Fuse Shell” applications available for free on the iPad App Store, with curriculums available as in-app purchases within the applications.
